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UNITE STATES P TENT OFFICE.

DAVID OLMSTED, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF PART TO CHARLES L. BRACKETT AND HYDE H. CLARK, OF SAME PLACE, WILLIAM E. ALLINGTON, OF EAST SAGINAIV, MICHIGAN, AND VILLIAM I-I. CURTIS, OF CHICAGQILLINOIS.

COIN-OPERATED SELLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,950, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed February 13, 1889. Serial No. 299,725. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: being arranged upon the outside of the cas- Be it known that I, DAVID OLMSTED, of Mining. A spring 17 is arranged upon the pluno neapolis, in the county of I-Iennepin and State ger and tends to hold it normally in the of Minnesota, have invented certain Imposition shown in full lines in Fig. 2. 5 provements in Coin-Operated Selling Devices, The'plunger 15 is preferably provided with of which the following is a specification. a notch 19, which is adapted to be engaged The obj cct of this invention is to provide byapivoted lever 21. This lever is preferably an improved coin-operated device for selling pivoted above the plunger 15, and is provided postage-stamps or other like articles. with a weighted end, which engages the notch 10 The invention consists, generally, in the 19 in the plunger. The opposite end of the construction and combination hereinafter delever is provided with a slot 23, and a sleeve scribed, and particularly pointed out in the 25, having a slot 27, which registers with the claims. slot 23 in the lever, is arranged upon the end In the accompanying drawings, forming a of the lever and is adapted to slide thereon.

- 15 part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side This sleeve is held in position upon the lever elevation of my improved device, a portion of by a spring 29, and it is provided with a lug the casing being broken away to show the ar- 31, which, when this end of the lever is derangement of the mechanism. Fig. 2 is a pressed, is adapted to be engaged by a lug plan view of the same. Fig. Sisa transverse 33 upon the sliding bar 9. The slot 23 ex- 20 vertical section. Fig. tisa detail of the pluntends to the end of the lever, while the slot 27 ger and its connection. Fig. 5 is a longitudiis closed at the end. When, therefore, the nal Vertical section. Fig. 6 is a similar view sleeve is in its normal position, a coin 35, of partially broken away, with the parts in the the size of an ordinary five-cent piece, will be position which they occupy after the coin has supported in the slotted end of the lever, as

2 5 been placed in the slot and the plunger has shown in Fig. 7. I

been operated. Figs. 7 and 8 are details. A coin-chute 37 is arranged within the cas- In the accompanying drawings, 2 represents ing, below a slot in the casing, in such posia suitable box or casing within which the tion that it will direct a coin into the slotted mechanism of the device is placed. Mounted end of the lever 21.. The sleeve is so adjusted 0 in bearings within this casing is a wheel 3, upon the lever that it will retain a coin of which is provided with a series of receptacles the size which it is intended shall operate the or recesses 5. These recesses are of suitable device, while a smaller coin will pass through size and shape to accommodate the articles the slot. A coin that will be retained by the which it is desired to sell. I have shown in lever will overbalance its opposite end, caus- 5 the drawings the wheel provided with narrow ing it to be raised from the notch in the plunrecesses, each of which is adapted to receive ger and bring the lug 31 upon the sleeve 25 one or more postage-stamps. Anopening 7 into position to be engaged by the lug 33 is provided in the wall of the casing, through upon the sliding bar 9. The plunger 15 will which the article or articles in the recess opthereby be raised, and it may now be pushed 4o posite the opening 7 may be removed. A in against the tension of the spring 17, turnsliding bar 9 is arranged within the casing 2, ing the bell-crank lever 11 upon its pivot, and is adapted by means hereinafter desliding the bar 9, and thereby moving the scribed to engage the Wheel3 and turn the wheel 3. As the bar 9 is moved the lug 33 same upon its axis. A bell-crank lever 11 engages the lug 31 and slides the sleeve 27 45 engages the bar 9, preferably by having its upon the lever21, thus permitting the coin to end arranged between screws 13 upon the drop through the slot in the lever. The other bar. The other arm of the lever engages a orweighted end of the lever will now tip down 5 slot in a plunger 15, the end of the plunger and rest upon the top of the plunger 15, and

when the plunger is released and is returned by the spring to its normal position the lever will again engage the notch in the top of the plunger and lock the plunger, so that it cannot be operated again until another coin has been placed in the slot.

In order to make it impossible for the wheel to be turned more than the desired distance each time a coin is placed in the slot, I prefer to connect the sliding bar and the wheel, as follows: Upon the face of the wheel I provide a series of pins 41. The bar 9 extends between these pins and thus locks the wheel and makes it impossible for any one to turn the wheel by applying power to that portion of the wheel that is exposed through the opening 7. The bar 9 is provided with an inclined slot t3, and with an oppositely-inclined surface 45, which connects with the upper portion of the slot 43. As the bar 9 is moved inward or toward the wheel 3, the first pin be-.

low the bar is engaged by the slot 43. As the bar continues to move inward, the pin passes through the slot 43, and therebythe wheel is turned for a short distance, but preferably not enough to expose the next recess in the wheel through the opening 7. The plunger is then released, the bar returns to its fromer position, and as it does so the pin which is now at the top of the slot 43 is e11- gaged by the inclined surface 45, which completes the movement of the wheel. \Vith this construction and arrangement in order to operate the wheel it is necessary to place a coin in the slot, push in the plunger, and then release it, and the wheel does not turn so as to expose its next recess until after the plunger is released.

I design to use this device for selling postage-stamps. I then adjust it so that it will be operated by a five-cent piece. I place two two-cent stamps in each of the recesses in the wheel 3. By placing a nickle or five-cent piece in the slot and operating the plunger the wheel may be turned, so as expose the next recess and the stamps may be removed through the opening 7. The device may, however, be used for selling other articles.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with asuitable casing, of the wheel provided with a series of receptacles, the sliding bar engaging therewith, the plunger for moving said bar, the pivoted lever 21, arranged to engage said plunger and provided with a slot 23, and the slotted sleeve 25, arranged upon said lever, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the wheel 3, of the sliding bar engaging said wheel and provided with the lug 33, the operating-plunger, the pivoted lever adapted to lock said plunger, and the slotted sleeve upon said lever provided with a lug 31, adapted when the end of the lever carrying the sleeve is depressed to be engaged by-the lug 33 upon the sliding bar, for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with the casing, of the plunger, the coin-operated releasing device, the wheel provided with a series of pins, and the sliding bar connected with said plunger, extending between said pins and provided with an inclined groove and an oppositelyinelined surface connecting with the top of said groove, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the wheel, the plunger, and the connecting device between said plunger and wheel, of the plunger looking and releasing device comprising the pivoted lever having a weighted end adapted to engage said plunger and slotted atits opposite end, a sliding sleeve arranged upon said lever and provided with a slot that registers with the slot in the lever, and a spring retaining said sleeve upon the lever, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of January, 1889.

DAVID OLMS'JEI). In presence of- A. 0. PAUL, A. M. GASKILL. 

